A prison worker who was “in over her head” with two inmates convicted of murder tearfully pleaded guilty Tuesday to charges of aiding them by smuggling hacksaw blades and other tools to the pair, who later broke out in a brazen, elaborate escape that ...

Mexican prosecutors investigating the escape of drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman formally placed 22 prison officials in custody on Tuesday over suspicions that the infamous fugitive had inside help. While a massive manhunt for Guzman entered its third full day, the attorney general’s ...

U.S. drug authorities knew Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and his associates had developed several escape plans starting almost immediately after his arrest last year, according to internal Drug Enforcement Administration documents obtained by The Associated Press. The internal DEA documents reveal ...

A convicted murderer who escaped from a maximum-security New York prison three weeks ago has been shot and captured, authorities and media said Sunday, two days after his fellow escapee was shot dead. David Sweat was wounded just 2 miles (3 km) south of ...

A corrections officer in New York state was arrested Wednesday in connection with the escape of two convicted killers who remain on the loose after a weeks-long manhunt, U.S. media reported. Clinton County District Attorney Andrew Wylie said jail employee Gene Palmer was charged, ...

A female prison worker being questioned by police, who are hunting two escapees from an upstate New York prison, thought she had a romantic relationship with one of them and had planned to drive the getaway car, NBC News reported on Thursday. In the ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl says he was tortured repeatedly in the five years he was held captive by the Taliban: beaten with a copper cable, chained spread-eagle to a bed, and threatened with execution after trying to escape. Bergdahl, 28, described this harsh ...

They killed like pros, but when the time came to flee, the Charlie Hebdo murderers morphed into bumbling characters from a crime caper — an odd and troubling mix, according to French security experts. Amateur footage and photos taken immediately after Wednesday’s massacre showed ...

More than 60 women and girls abducted last month by suspected Boko Haram militants in northeast Nigeria have escaped their captors, sources said Sunday. Local vigilante Abbas Gava said he had “received an alert from my colleagues … that about 63 of the abducted ...

Fukuoka Police on Monday morning captured a 32-year-old suspect in a rape and robbery, who several hours earlier managed to escape a hospital in Fukuoka, where he had been undergoing psychiatric assessment, authorities said. Yasuyuki Okuma, a former restaurant worker from neighboring Saga Prefecture, ...

The escape of an alleged rapist from a Kawasaki prosecutor's office interrogation room this week highlights the insufficient security steps at such branches as well as the apparent lax guarding of suspected criminals.